Of more general significance, the markets would realize that some two million barrels a day of Iranian oil were now removed from the world market for an indeterminate period of time, and the price of oil would jump.
In the past it was common for firms to indulge in large-scale recruitment programmes: hoovering up the most talented students from business schools en masse, often for indeterminate roles.
One thousand Aramark chefs have been cooking up vats of pasta and cauldrons of carbonara sauce -- and, perhaps inevitably, those pans of meatloaf of indeterminate color, that seem to be the staple of large-scale food service from school cafeterias to military mess halls.